To Make You Feel My Love

I didn’t always want to believe or trust that God would allow horrible things happen in order to bring us closer to Him.To experience His love.”Lovesick” in my own life, feeling vulnerable yet, in some ways very much in control?, I continued to seek what I thought would heal and fulfill me.Little did I know, however, despite all the disappointments and devastation, I was headed straight into God’s grace and His unconditional love.But this journey hasn’t been as graceful as one might think.It has been painstaking, detrimental to my relationships, gut-wrenching, and eye-opening–in an amazing, yet wholly edifying way.While the title of this post also resonates with how I behaved and believed in the past, it really exemplifies God’s will for all of us to come home to Him and feel His love, without relying on that of others so much (because, let’s be real, we humans can be so disappointing, unstable, unloving, and, dare I say, unlovable!), nor the love we can feel falsely fulfilled from giving out to others so freely.So, no, I no longer exert myself to make others feel my love.But I do always remind them how much they are loved by God, our Father. And myself, now, too.With humility and power,Michele Next week: “God wins”